skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a while ago pest became strongly criticized for using flawed benchmarks to show how it's the fastest (the benchmarks where doing fundamentally different things).

Does anyone know if that is still the case?

UPDATE: Looking at their benchmarks they do only tokenize the json but do not fully parse it, i.e. they don't:

- parse numbers, bool, int, float

- unescape strings (requires more alloc)

- create a map type for objects (requires more alloc)

And while idk. if there nom bench they used also only tokenizes (the (repo:)nom/json.rs bench do not just tokenize) the serde one definitely does all the parsing producing a high level json representing (i.e. an enum with different variants using `Vec` for array and `HashMap` for objects, where numbers, boolenas and strings are converted to respective rust types) so they are comparing code which currently only validates+toenzies syntax with code which fully parses the JSON and as such has to do a bunch of additional steps and memory allocation.

It's really sad that a it project with so much work put into it still uses dishonest means to promote itself (I mean it's unnecessary, it fast and it's a parser generator so no annoying hand rolling code, that makes it already a very reasonable choice even without being faster then nom).
Thanks for pointing this out: previously I had looked at Micro with a view towards using it, and I had utterly failed to notice this.
People who are seriously helped by the program will not return, but those who were not helped will come back. Over the long run the program will be full of people who cannot be helped and a small number who will do well. So seeing 2 out of 10 doing well does not shed light on the program's success.
MSFT Research: Making Visual Representations Matter in Vision-Language Models
This looks cool but I'd be in the market for a software solution that gave me "games, races, and programs" with a Concept 2 + iPad. If anyone knows of such a product please let me know.
Lucky you. I rarely get autotools projects to compile cleanly even under idyllic circumstances.
Sounds like a personal shopper, which is an actual business.
Has anyone calculated how much energy\entropy is expended to evolve a functioning genome?

My math is far too weak to even know where to start.

It may give a better sense of how much is lost when a species goes extinct.
Indeed, overdoses in SF are way up, at least partially due to putting the homeless in empty hotels.
Odd that "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" could have such an effect, but we have all kinds of movies and TV shows now depicting how terrible prison is and that doesn't seem to have a similar (but opposite) effect.
Also, "unofficial bash strict mode" is terrific, especially if you intend to distribute a script:

http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/

set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'

(You can always turn, for example, error checking back off for an individual portion of the script with `set +e`)
Who wants to have fingerprints all over their laptop screen? Who wants to raise their hands up from the keyboard position all the time to reach the screen?
The police let the terrorists in and DC authorities were denied National Guard resources by Military authorities.

There are several documented terrorists who are active duty police officers and the terrorist who was killed was an Air Force officer.

Seems like this coup attempt had plenty of support from the Military and Police.
This is what I can’t figure out.
The trippy detail for me is that the runtime is time and space, thats what its frictioned against, even matter and its states are determined by it. Evolution sure is a word.. Not sure it captures it tho
wonder what the price is? Could that be used for all kinds of applications? what would the do for e-bikes, scooters etc?
I remember that episode, seen them all at least twice. I was just a kid when they all were closing but thinking back it seemed like a good thing. I do wonder now where people thought all those people in there would go. I think a lot of people believed they did not need to be there and were getting a free ride as strange as that sounds.
What's your e-mail address? I just updated my profile page's about section with my e-mail address. Just send an email.
I was even able to dos my mail server with a bot that signed up newsletters.
Completely agree. I think this could also explain the fundamental randomness we perceive at the quantum level. We're simply not seeing/unable to see the full picture.
Did scientists ever figure out how sauropods ate enough to support their mass, with their tiny mouths?
There's a comment from the author here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25344091.

I actually invited him to repost his Show HN but it looks like a different mod added the current submission to the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), which is also fine.
Same topic (different article) had significant discussion a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25865094
I've written multi-tetrode cluster analysis SW. It is very much not simple. Deconvolving all the inputs is terribly difficult and computationally expensive. Generally we had undergrads as classifiers for the clustering ML, which never really worked all that well, TBH. The higher the sampling frequency, the better the spatiotemporal resolution, but the more data to work through. When you do get a cluster, the overlaps are very close together and it really is hard to say that they are 2 neurons. It takes a lot of data/time to be certain.

One thing to remember is that noise is a huge problem with all this. Not just the 'normal' electronic sources (how do you ground a brain well? It's intentionally evolved to be nothing but loops!), but the neuronal too. Neurons will often fire just because (or not), they will jiggle with animal movement, they will move with heartbeat, and they will die off or move on their own, the electrode dances about, the brain attacks the electrodes, some portion of the electrode snaps off, etc. It is a very hard thing to manage well.

Sorry, bad 'memories' of those projects.
> As I mentioned earlier we run Postgres on i3.8xlarge instances in EC2, which come with about 7.6TB of NVMe storage.

Wait a second. You run your production database on ephemeral storage? Wow.

I see the replication setup and the S3 WAL archiving and whatnot but still... that's brave.
Faltering on resolutions? It isn't you, it is your resolutions
LinkedIn is slowly being destroyed by "personal branding consultants" who train people to be "person branding consultants". Once you get a couple of those in your connections the platform becomes unusable.
> DigitalOcean does deplatform people... I can suggest Tarsnap

Tarsnap runs on Amazon.
Essays That Became Books
My parents had corrective eye surgery in the last decade (corrected their myopia), and they claim the eye surgery damaged their "reading vision." They lament the loss of their reading vision, and I have to keep explaining that they're experiencing presbyopia and not some damage the surgery caused.

My myopia is pretty bad (-9.25 and -8.5 in contacts), so I don't even get the benefit of reading without correction.
Per the discussion in the link, specifically "All the supported languages except C and C++ are second-class citizens.", I'd seriously consider writing off everything except C, C++, and any language where someone steps up to actively support their language going forward.

Slice autotools down to 32-bit & 64-bit UNIX systems in the last couple of years (bearing in mind that if you start that today, by the time it is finished it will constitute support for the last 3-5 years)... or even all the way to current systems for the parenthesized reason... for C and C++.

Would probably also call it "Autotools 3" and slice away anything else that doesn't seem useful, on the grounds that 2.7 isn't going anywhere. If in doubt, slice it away and see what people say when you release 2.99.01.

This probably takes it down to something not so enormous to carry around.

It seems like other languages are all going their own way. Maybe that's bad, maybe that's good, most likely it's a complicated combination of both, but most importantly, there's nothing Autotools can do to stop it at this point, so you might as well roll with it.
> Maybe you could open source your bank account data, and all your movements to show that you couldn't have opened any secret accounts? That's a ridiculous ask.

Actually, maybe not open source, but otherwise that is exactly what would happen should I be suspect of being a thief. No reason why dominion cannot show their source code to professional investigators to get their name cleared right? If they are so vocal about being innocent, why not do it?
autotools is used for embedded systems, if you cut them out then you lose a big part of thei rusers...
Here in Japan, blackout is very rare event but Leaf and Outlander PHEV supports V2H from first release. Normally it's not needed but it's helpful when disaster happened.
Energy and entropy are not really the right metric here. The thing that is lost when a species goes extinct is information, and specifically, information that has been acquired by a process of parallel search that has been going on for literally a few billion years, so the odds of reproducing that information once it is lost is effectively zero. Imagine working on a term paper for a few billion years and then having your computer crash and not having a backup. That's what happens when a species goes extinct.
Plus isn't accurate that oxygen in air was much higher in the era this new found dinosaur was found?
(edit) seems that this new find would be in the middle of the cretaceous period and according to some quick googling, it is thought the 02 levels were ~30% versus ~20% today.
No questions asked monastic living without any Jesus down your throat is rare. Only the homeless and wealthy can afford to walk from their apartment/mortgage for weeks without income.

I saw several women that were domestic abuse victims - their family labeled them as crazy because Iowa doesn't really have any emergency shelters to speak of.
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole of Digital Ocean and their "security" for production workloads.

> Show me any other vps provider that silently provides access to customer A's data to customer B after receiving commands from customer A to destroy their instance and then I'll believe you guys aren't at the very bottom of the "takes security seriously" list.

From: https://github.com/fog/fog/issues/2525#issuecomment-31337481

YC News Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983097

> You do not need to scrub or write anything to not provide user A’s data to user B in a multi-tenant environment. Sparse allocation can easily return nulls to a reader even while the underlying block storage still contains the old data. ... On top of all of that, when I pointed out that what they were doing was absolute amateur hour clownshoes, they oscillated between telling me it was a design decision working as intended (and that it was fine for me to publicize it), and that I was an irresponsible discloser by sharing a vulnerability.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20091026

> You've got an additional problem though, which is that this tells us you have two support channels: one that doesn't work (i.e. yours, the one you built), and one that does (Twitter-shaming). The first channel represents how you act when no one's watching; the second, how you act when they are. Most people prefer to deal with people for whom those two are the same.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169

Speaking of randomly locking accounts, the post-mortem kills me:

> The initial account lock and resource power down resulted from an automated service that monitors for cryptocurrency mining activity (Droplet CPU loads and Droplet create behaviors). These signals, coupled with a number of account-level signals (including payment history and current run rate compared to total payments) are used to determine if automated action is warranted to minimize the impact of potential fraudulent high-cpu-loads on other customers.

From: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/an-update-on-last-weeks-cu...?

In other other words, DO will kill your account with a curt email staring simply: "We have reviewed your account and have declined to activate it. No further information or action is required from you." for simply using "too much CPU"! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D76ocofXoAY_xB5.png
Microsoft is mocking now doomed Apple Touch Bar
I spend most of my time in /new.

It's the best part of HN, in the same sense that questions on stack overflow that have been flagged as inappropriate are the most interesting ones.
1. My point was the opposite, people should be free to make allegations of vote fraud, as they are to allege that it was fair.
But blanket calling one side of the argument misinformation, is a waste of time for everyone, unless there is a good claim to back it up.

An allegation of rape can be misinformation but it probably has to be investigated first?
You shouldn't just call it misinformation without backing it up.

2. After an investigation you can still make claims, but you would be more liable to lawsuits. Or, in an online discussion, it would be more probable that you would be wasting everyone's time. e.g. people that keep insisting Trump works for Russia. For that we have conspiracy forums.

Your comment was completely unnecessary. I'm not sure what to call it, perhaps "the phantom footbal referee"
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That's the point -- lawyers are a licensed profession based on the bar exam and bar association.
OpnSense is a true open fork of pfSense. https://opnsense.org

(not affiliated, just friends with the OpnSense team)
Considering Apple got a very good score for their newest laptop, this is index is broken my design.
I’ve been hearing about this happen for a long time. Unfortunate that it’s still the case.
EDIT: by instead of my
Still, i fell that machines make it needlessly complex. Most democracies do fine without that. Getting a fast result seems like the least important aspect of voting for representatives.
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We have many other therapeutic tools to combat COVID-19.

https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/#d.e...
The fact that the answer isn't "move to RDS where Amazon solves the problem for us, which isn't our core business as a relationships app" seems to me to be a massive failing of the RDS offering and cloud services in general.
Unexpected lessons from shipping 100 features
Those all involve the virus reaching the host.

The virus can't "evolve" its way around not reaching the host very well. Evolution isn't magic. The virus can't "evolve" teleportation or an immunity to high-energy electromagnetic radiation just because it would be really useful to it if it could. It can't just "evolve" its way around masks very well.

As I said, bacteria have at least more options, though they face the same physical constraints everything else in the universe does. Viruses don't really have many options. They are very simple.
Looks deceive. :)
100%, we just had two weeks of indoor mask wearing here, after a case of covid had been out in the wild. It really was inconvenient to have to punch in a passcode to pay for groceries. Mask wearing removes the seamless magic of face ID. You're on to it for sure.

I would like to have both. And proper 5G (on phones besides the US edition).
Yes, it's in that thread a few days later albeit not easy to find.

https://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-custom...
Target's Official GitHub Organization
I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are not autistic.
Does anyone have a clubhouse invite to spare? I want to dive in and taste the app interface.
Exactly. I use Nextcloud with Spaces as a backend. It’s been sitting there for months by now.
It'll get harder when the computers add eye tracking and one has to fake looking at the text too :)
(I wrote a giant response to this explaining why I was frustrated and who I was frustrated with and how it meant we were just screwed as a society, but I have decided to just suffice it to note that I am not mocking your phrasing--that is the correct phrasing for the demoralizing thought--and that, FWIW, I don't think iOS does this in the same way, even for the "enterprise"-signed software where one would expect it would work identically, which is a bit hilarious.)
I ran PfSense for a year or two and thought it was an ok product. Then I started looking for the sources because I wanted to fix some bugs and discovered it's not an actual open source project so I was dismayed and went back to using another product. I'll have to check out opnsense as there are quite a few things I'm not doing as well as I'd like in my current network.
Purely at a guess, people's images are stored in the app as blobs because it's "easier"
You’re very likely getting an upvote from everyone who visited the link and came back here. Thank you.
1) Drugs are bad. The mushrooms you do at burning man every summer do not make you an expert on the effects of meth and heroin on people who are living under a bridge.

2) Placation will make it worse. Living under a bridge near other homeless people is the problem. Efforts to decriminalize "the unhoused" make the problem worse. Look at Portland, SF, Austin, and ever other city that tries this. It gets worse EVERY TIME. STOP DOING THIS.

To solve the problem:

1) Hold humans to a high standard. No, you can't live in the park. That isn't an option. No you can't do drugs. No you can't rob the walgreens. No you can't stand in my front yard at 2:00am screaming. Doing these things will result in your spending your time locked in jail.

2) Get a job. Places like Albuquerque have program where anybody can show up in the morning and get work doing things like cleaning the parks, cleaning the sidewalks, picking up trash, etc. This is good. More of this.

3) Our understanding of human psychology does not need "disruption". People who spend their time depressed and doing drugs while living in a ditch are going to develop serious stress related mental health issues. People with structured 9-5 jobs which result in them having a house and food, and something to work towards are universally more mentally healthy. And it isn't the house and the food making them more stable, it's the structure.

The efforts to fix this stuff: closing the mental health facilities, letting people sleep in their own filth, letting people commit petty crimes: these things make the problem WORSE. Stop it. This stuff might make you feel good, but it is at the expense of the people you are exploiting for your good feelings. Stop being so selfish and accept that the solution to this problem isn'g going to be happy and fun and worthy of instagram posts.
Only if they evaluated RDS and found it wanting. They don't even mention testing it.
I suspect lot's of folks here already read Matt Levine's Money Stuff col everyday, but if you don't, it is highly educational and genuinely funny (and free via email).
People also underestimate how easy it is for life to get started by accident. Let's say you need a short segment of DNA to randomly pop into existence, capable of nothing but self-replication. What are the odds?

Here's my best analogy: If you take one mole of "random" Rubik's Cubes (the number of molecules in a glass of water), then search for 'Solved' ones you'll find 512 are magically solved, merely by the power of large numbers. The ways molecules can 'snap together' are similarly 'finite', just like a puzzle.

Now think how many glasses of water are on earth. A replicating molecule would have existed probably on the FIRST DAY earth had cooled enough to form water.

If we knew what the shortest sequence if DNA is that can replicate, we'd be able to mathematically state the probability of it existing in any 'random' length of DNA of that length as 1/(4^N) where N is DNA length (number of AT/GC pairs).
Nitpicking, but training eye muscles to tighten/loosen and thereby change the shape of the eyeball is more along the lines of what the technique apparently claims to do, and OP is asking about. Orthokeratology changes only the shape of the cornea, not the eye ball itself; it's a bit like talking about making a telescope physically longer/shorter vs. simply switching out the lens at one end for a different one.
> No, you can only appeal after you've been rejected.

How To Make A Mathematically Perfectly Infuriating Traffic Jam 101 :(

> [...] [M]y request was "escalated for continued handling". But it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Your status was upgraded to "waiting faster" :D

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> Who wants to have fingerprints all over their laptop screen?

You are ok with fingerprints on the phone screen?

Sometimes, it’s just easier\quicker to tap your finger on the screen than moving the mouse pointer.

I own all the device types released from Apple and MS.
Please just sunset it and recommend projects adopt better tools.

And if not, please please please please deprecate libtool, which is the worst abomination. Making shared libraries with gcc and clang is not hard, and libtool should never be adopted for new projects (yet the GNU docs recommend it).
Perhaps I was not clear. A virus can't "adapt" to not being physically presented to its potential host. It can't "adapt" to "being blocked by a mask" or "the person I infected intelligently self-isolating and thus I can't spread any farther". Even if you could hypothetically draw out genetic changes that would permit it, it would require substantial changes to evolve all at once.
Check out Asensei for live coaching, or Kinomap for outdoor rows :)
Indeed - in isolation home price increase tends to match inflation (as in, no real dollar returns). In areas where it goes up, it tends to be due to external influences such as city councils preventing new development.
Is there any kind of list/log/charting showing cancel / deplatforming of groups and the actions that brought it to be? There have been so many in the news the past few years I think.

This story has me wondering, how many people (that are supposedly from group X or Y) need to do something repulsive to get a whole group deplatformed from 'place A' - 'place b' - etc.

Not judging this particular story - as it could come out (or not come out, but be known internally) that there is more details Amazon has, that has made it seem more important to do this for one reason or another - I also don't know all the details from the associated event I assume this is in relation to.

I am finding it interesting though that it seems easy to cancel a group, and I'm not sure how many members of said group need to be cast in a bad light before bringing the ban hammer down on them.

Maybe it's not just a number, but a percentage of members? A group of 100 could have 1 member do something and get cancelled, a group of 10,000 could have a dozen people doing terrible things but it's not?

I'd like to see a chart logging these things and some stats come together. Seems to be there is going to be many more cancelled in the future, people should be prepared for the wrath brought unto them from their associates (real, virtual, perceived, everything it seems).
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